Re: Seeking lURNed advice on UDDI

From: Tony Coates <Tony.Coates@reuters.com>

To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org

Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:00:58 +0100

On 26/04/2001 01:13:24 Tim Bray wrote:
>it turns out that the UDDI tagset is in a namespace whose
>name is "urn:uddi-org:api". This makes me uncomfortable, but
>maybe that's just because I don't understand URNs. First off,
>how unique is that? It doesn't *look* very unique to a URN
>virgin.
They certainly haven't been granted this URN NID (namespace ID), see
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/urn-namespaces
though perhaps (?) they have an Internet Draft in the pipeline.
Cheers,
Tony.
[an author of the NewsML URN NID spec, RFC 3085, "http://rfc.net/rfc3085.html"]
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Reuters Plc, London.
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